**Top photo titled: "Minnie Adams" ( Photo credit to National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Dickinson Research Center).
** Group photo is titled: Cowgirls with George Adams Rodeo, Albion, Illinois, circa 1935. Minnie Adams is third from right.
L to R: Unidentified, Bea Cooper, Unidentified, Lucyle Garmes Richards, Alice Greenough, Minnie Adams, Pearl Biren, and Myrtle Goodrich. (Photo credit: Doubleday's Cowgirls Women of the West Part One.)
**Adams Rodeo Co advertisement found online.
Minnie was one of ten children of Mathias Johnson and Caroline Hanson (aka Inger Karine Hanson) both born in Norway.
Online family history notes indicate the family homesteaded in Polk County, Minnesota and throughout the years suffered many hardships and her mother and father separated sometime after the 1910 Polk County, Minnesota census where she is age seven, her name as Mina C. Her father moved to North Dakota and her mother remained in Minnesota where in the 1920 Polk County, Minnesota census, she was head of household with four sons. Minnie is not in the household. In the 1920 census Minnie Johnson, age 17, born in Minnesota, both parents born in Norway, is a lodger living in Big Falls, Minnesota. At some time after the 1920 census she was in Iowa where she married George Vest Adams in 1922.
Minnie Johnson, age 19, and George Vest Adams, age 30, were married September 6, 1922 in Centerville, Iowa. Parents names listed are: Joel P Adams and Amanda Way; and Matt Johnson and Caroline Hanson.
George and Minnie had four children:
Helen 1925-1927; Shirley 1929-2008; Lena Mae 1930-1933; and Gary 1943-1966.
**See memorial for her husband, George Vest Adams, for further information.
**Online family notes: For about 25 years George and Minnie operated the Adam's Rodeo which toured all over the US and Canada. He raised and trained horses at their home in Melrose , Iowa. Greencastle, [Greenfield] Indiana was the headquarters for the rodeo.
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Obituary published in the Albia Union-Republican Newspaper in Albia, Iowa on April 26, 1973, page 2:
Services were held at 1:30 P.M. today for Mrs. Minnie (George) Adams, 70, who died Monday afternoon at her home north of Georgetown..
The Rev. Wesley Lowry was to officiate at today's service held at the Turner Funeral Home in Moravia. Burial was to be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Moravia.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 21, 1902 in Fertile, Minn., the daughter of Mathias and Caroline Hanson Johnson. She married George Adams who survives.
Other survivors included one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Biron of Greenfield, three grandsons; and thee brothers. Henry, Joseph and Teddie Johnson.
One son and two daughters preceded her in death.
** Group photo is titled: Cowgirls with George Adams Rodeo, Albion, Illinois, circa 1935. Minnie Adams is third from right.
L to R: Unidentified, Bea Cooper, Unidentified, Lucyle Garmes Richards, Alice Greenough, Minnie Adams, Pearl Biren, and Myrtle Goodrich. (Photo credit: Doubleday's Cowgirls Women of the West Part One.)
**Adams Rodeo Co advertisement found online.
Minnie was one of ten children of Mathias Johnson and Caroline Hanson (aka Inger Karine Hanson) both born in Norway.
Online family history notes indicate the family homesteaded in Polk County, Minnesota and throughout the years suffered many hardships and her mother and father separated sometime after the 1910 Polk County, Minnesota census where she is age seven, her name as Mina C. Her father moved to North Dakota and her mother remained in Minnesota where in the 1920 Polk County, Minnesota census, she was head of household with four sons. Minnie is not in the household. In the 1920 census Minnie Johnson, age 17, born in Minnesota, both parents born in Norway, is a lodger living in Big Falls, Minnesota. At some time after the 1920 census she was in Iowa where she married George Vest Adams in 1922.
Minnie Johnson, age 19, and George Vest Adams, age 30, were married September 6, 1922 in Centerville, Iowa. Parents names listed are: Joel P Adams and Amanda Way; and Matt Johnson and Caroline Hanson.
George and Minnie had four children:
Helen 1925-1927; Shirley 1929-2008; Lena Mae 1930-1933; and Gary 1943-1966.
**See memorial for her husband, George Vest Adams, for further information.
**Online family notes: For about 25 years George and Minnie operated the Adam's Rodeo which toured all over the US and Canada. He raised and trained horses at their home in Melrose , Iowa. Greencastle, [Greenfield] Indiana was the headquarters for the rodeo.
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Obituary published in the Albia Union-Republican Newspaper in Albia, Iowa on April 26, 1973, page 2:
Services were held at 1:30 P.M. today for Mrs. Minnie (George) Adams, 70, who died Monday afternoon at her home north of Georgetown..
The Rev. Wesley Lowry was to officiate at today's service held at the Turner Funeral Home in Moravia. Burial was to be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Moravia.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 21, 1902 in Fertile, Minn., the daughter of Mathias and Caroline Hanson Johnson. She married George Adams who survives.
Other survivors included one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Biron of Greenfield, three grandsons; and thee brothers. Henry, Joseph and Teddie Johnson.
One son and two daughters preceded her in death.
**Top photo titled: "Minnie Adams" ( Photo credit to National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Dickinson Research Center).
** Group photo is titled: Cowgirls with George Adams Rodeo, Albion, Illinois, circa 1935. Minnie Adams is third from right.
L to R: Unidentified, Bea Cooper, Unidentified, Lucyle Garmes Richards, Alice Greenough, Minnie Adams, Pearl Biren, and Myrtle Goodrich. (Photo credit: Doubleday's Cowgirls Women of the West Part One.)
**Adams Rodeo Co advertisement found online.
Minnie was one of ten children of Mathias Johnson and Caroline Hanson (aka Inger Karine Hanson) both born in Norway.
Online family history notes indicate the family homesteaded in Polk County, Minnesota and throughout the years suffered many hardships and her mother and father separated sometime after the 1910 Polk County, Minnesota census where she is age seven, her name as Mina C. Her father moved to North Dakota and her mother remained in Minnesota where in the 1920 Polk County, Minnesota census, she was head of household with four sons. Minnie is not in the household. In the 1920 census Minnie Johnson, age 17, born in Minnesota, both parents born in Norway, is a lodger living in Big Falls, Minnesota. At some time after the 1920 census she was in Iowa where she married George Vest Adams in 1922.
Minnie Johnson, age 19, and George Vest Adams, age 30, were married September 6, 1922 in Centerville, Iowa. Parents names listed are: Joel P Adams and Amanda Way; and Matt Johnson and Caroline Hanson.
George and Minnie had four children:
Helen 1925-1927; Shirley 1929-2008; Lena Mae 1930-1933; and Gary 1943-1966.
**See memorial for her husband, George Vest Adams, for further information.
**Online family notes: For about 25 years George and Minnie operated the Adam's Rodeo which toured all over the US and Canada. He raised and trained horses at their home in Melrose , Iowa. Greencastle, [Greenfield] Indiana was the headquarters for the rodeo.
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Obituary published in the Albia Union-Republican Newspaper in Albia, Iowa on April 26, 1973, page 2:
Services were held at 1:30 P.M. today for Mrs. Minnie (George) Adams, 70, who died Monday afternoon at her home north of Georgetown..
The Rev. Wesley Lowry was to officiate at today's service held at the Turner Funeral Home in Moravia. Burial was to be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Moravia.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 21, 1902 in Fertile, Minn., the daughter of Mathias and Caroline Hanson Johnson. She married George Adams who survives.
Other survivors included one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Biron of Greenfield, three grandsons; and thee brothers. Henry, Joseph and Teddie Johnson.
One son and two daughters preceded her in death.
** Group photo is titled: Cowgirls with George Adams Rodeo, Albion, Illinois, circa 1935. Minnie Adams is third from right.
L to R: Unidentified, Bea Cooper, Unidentified, Lucyle Garmes Richards, Alice Greenough, Minnie Adams, Pearl Biren, and Myrtle Goodrich. (Photo credit: Doubleday's Cowgirls Women of the West Part One.)
**Adams Rodeo Co advertisement found online.
Minnie was one of ten children of Mathias Johnson and Caroline Hanson (aka Inger Karine Hanson) both born in Norway.
Online family history notes indicate the family homesteaded in Polk County, Minnesota and throughout the years suffered many hardships and her mother and father separated sometime after the 1910 Polk County, Minnesota census where she is age seven, her name as Mina C. Her father moved to North Dakota and her mother remained in Minnesota where in the 1920 Polk County, Minnesota census, she was head of household with four sons. Minnie is not in the household. In the 1920 census Minnie Johnson, age 17, born in Minnesota, both parents born in Norway, is a lodger living in Big Falls, Minnesota. At some time after the 1920 census she was in Iowa where she married George Vest Adams in 1922.
Minnie Johnson, age 19, and George Vest Adams, age 30, were married September 6, 1922 in Centerville, Iowa. Parents names listed are: Joel P Adams and Amanda Way; and Matt Johnson and Caroline Hanson.
George and Minnie had four children:
Helen 1925-1927; Shirley 1929-2008; Lena Mae 1930-1933; and Gary 1943-1966.
**See memorial for her husband, George Vest Adams, for further information.
**Online family notes: For about 25 years George and Minnie operated the Adam's Rodeo which toured all over the US and Canada. He raised and trained horses at their home in Melrose , Iowa. Greencastle, [Greenfield] Indiana was the headquarters for the rodeo.
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Obituary published in the Albia Union-Republican Newspaper in Albia, Iowa on April 26, 1973, page 2:
Services were held at 1:30 P.M. today for Mrs. Minnie (George) Adams, 70, who died Monday afternoon at her home north of Georgetown..
The Rev. Wesley Lowry was to officiate at today's service held at the Turner Funeral Home in Moravia. Burial was to be in Hillcrest Cemetery in Moravia.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 21, 1902 in Fertile, Minn., the daughter of Mathias and Caroline Hanson Johnson. She married George Adams who survives.
Other survivors included one daughter, Mrs. Shirley Biron of Greenfield, three grandsons; and thee brothers. Henry, Joseph and Teddie Johnson.
One son and two daughters preceded her in death.
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